Tag: writing competitions

• June 22, 2018

  4 questions to ask before you give up on a story

  I get it. Rejection is tough. Sometimes you start to wonder, is my story good enough? Is it good at all? Should I just give up and move on to the next thing. I’ve talked about rejection before. I’ve talked about how sometimes a rejection letter can be the most motivating thing you receive, I’ve…
• May 11, 2018

  How I wrote a crime story when I’m a fantasy writer

  When I won the Thuderbolt Prize for Crime Writing last year a lot of people started to think of me as a crime writer. If any of you have read my other published short stories you’ll know I’m much more of a speculative fiction writer. So, how did I come to write a crime story?…
• November 16, 2017

  NaNoWriMo 2017: Day 15: I won a short story competion!

  So you may remember a few days ago I received some exciting and distracting news? Well I can now share that news with you…. My short story ‘Roots’ won the 2017 Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing, fiction category! The New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing is a national award for unpublished short-form crime writing…
• February 14, 2017

  Short Story Competitions – March 2017

  I’ve been doing a lot of research into upcoming short story competitions this year with the intention of submitting to as many as I can. Since I’ve done the research I figure I should share it. So here is my list of short fiction competitions with deadlines in March. Happy submitting! F(r)iction Winter Literary Competition…
• February 10, 2017

  Letters from Suburbia – Feb 2017

  So it’s time to spread the news. ALL OF THE NEWS. Ok, there’s not that much. As you may or may not know, I’m not one for planning ahead. Commitments beyond a few months stress and intimidate me. Which is why this year my plan is… not to plan! Well not plan much anyway. Yes,…
• June 1, 2016

  In which many good things happen

  I’ve been having a string of good luck lately. In the last week I received my Masters degree from Deakin in the mail, placed first in The Writing Junction Mentorship and Microfiction competition for my story ‘Crow’ and had a short story published in The Airgonaut. My Facebook and Twitter pages have become the grounds…